Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from to By , the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62, articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools.
In March , Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the Encarta disc and online versions. Microsoft continued to operate the Encarta online dictionary until Reviewer: username - favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 5, Subject: Works, but no Flash Does anybody know how to enable Flash on Windows 10 so the interactive features work?
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There was also a 'Geography Quiz' and several other games and quizzes, some quizzes also in Encarta Kids. For years, Encarta came in three primary software editions: Standard, Premium, and Reference Library price and features in that order.
Beginning with Encarta , however, when Websters Multimedia took over its maintenance, Encarta became a feature of Microsoft Student. Although it was possible to purchase only the Encarta encyclopedia separately, Microsoft Student bundles together Encarta Premium with Microsoft Math a graphing-calculator program and Learning Essentials, which provides templates for Microsoft Office. In addition, the Reference Library was discontinued, absorbed into a newer, more comprehensive Premium package.
Encarta ' s user interface was shared with Microsoft Student, and was streamlined to reduce clutter with only a Search box which returned relevant results; however it became no longer possible to simply browse all the encyclopedia articles alphabetically. The dynamic maps were generated with the same engine that powered Microsoft MapPoint software.
The map was a virtual globe that one could freely rotate and magnify to any location down to major streets for big cities. The globe had multiple surfaces displaying political boundaries, physical landmarks, historical maps and statistical information.
One could selectively display statistical values on the globe surface or in a tabular form, different sized cities, various geological or man-made features and reference lines in a map. The maps contained hyperlinks to related articles 'Map Trek' and also supported a 'Dynamic Sensor' that provides the latitude, longitude, place name, population and local time for any point on the globe.
Encarta also generated a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it did not include a planetarium, but instead had a small interactive constellation-only map. In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in Encarta 'Historical Maps' were drawn by artists.
Some more advanced maps were interactive: for example, the large African map for Africana could display information such as political boundaries or the distribution of African flora. There was some controversy over the decision, since the dictionary lacks the other books provided in 'Bookshelf' which many found to be a useful reference, such as Columbia Dictionary of Quotations replaced with a quotations section in Encarta that links to relevant articles and people and an Internet Directory although many of the sites listed in offline directories no longer exist.
Before the emergence of the World Wide Web for information browsing, Microsoft recognized the importance of having an engine that supported a multimediamarkup language, full text search, and extensibility using software objects. The hypertext display, hyperlinking and search software was created by a team of CD-ROM Division developers in the late s who designed it as a generalized engine for uses as diverse as interactive help, document management systems and as ambitious as a multimedia encyclopedia.
Encarta was able to use various Microsoft technologies because it was extensible with software components for displaying unique types of multimedia information. For example, a snap in map engine is adapted from its MapPoint software. The hypertext and search engine used by Encarta also powered Microsoft Bookshelf. Encarta used database technologies to generate much of its multimedia content. For example, Encarta generated each zoomable map from a global geographic information system database on demand.
When a user used the copy and paste function of Microsoft Windows on Encarta on more than five words, Encarta automatically appended a copyrightboilerplate message after the paste. Early in , Gary Alt announced that the online Encarta started to allow users to suggest changes to existing articles.
It used short sentences from the Encarta website, and sometimes displays full articles in the Internet Explorer-based browser on the right. It also could complete simple mathematical and advanced algebra problems. This service was also available in German, [35] Spanish, [36] French [37] and Japanese.
Each summer in the Northern hemisphere or winter in the Southern hemisphere , Microsoft published a new version of Encarta. However, despite the inclusion of news-related and some supplementary articles, Encarta ' s contents had not been changed substantially in its later years.
Besides the yearly update, the installed offline copy could be updated over the Internet for a certain period for free depending on the edition. Some articles usually about 2, were updated to reflect important changes or events.
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